Coding (Databases & Life)

“Annotations” That Only Appear When a Unit Test Fails
“--” in XML comments
“v” command in “less”
‘Futures’ are a great addition to the software developer’s toolkit
10 things to do to release working code
Always Use a “default” Clause in a “switch” Statement
Avoid adding “drive-by formatting changes” to commits
Bug Analysis: Some Checkboxes Get Myseriously Deselected Some of the Time
Class names repeating information stated in the package name
Debian 10 box in Vagrant fails with grub error
Don’t leave old out-of-date code commented out; just delete it
Don’t names classes AbstractThing or ISerializable
Don’t use gettext
Don’t use string constants when writing SQL statements in code
Don’t use the @author Javadoc tag
First impressions of the “Go” programming language
Generate Javadoc HTML only for public members
Generating XML programmatically? Don’t use CDATA
How to set username and password when consuming a SOAP service with Spring
IDE reverse auto-complete
Improve code readability by putting spaces around the “not” symbol
Java 5 enums can be compared with ==
Java Exceptions naming convention: <problem><noun>Exception
Java gotcha: anArray.hashCode() isn’t deep, but aList.hashCode() is
Java varargs: inconsistent behaviour if you pass an array
No need to support Safari 2 any more
On writing deadlock-free and composable software
Order of parameters to functions
Override configuration programmatically from unit tests
Parameter ordering: Destinations on the left
Persistent Login (the “remember me” checkbox)
Position of the star when declaring C pointers
Prefer Lombok’s @SneakyThrows to rethrowing checked exceptions as RuntimeExceptions
Programming Languages: Is newer always better?
Programming Languages: Is newer always better? (Part 2)
Put SQL together with the code that uses it
Puzzle: Transfering a hex number. Normally works, but very rarely arrives as the string “INF”. Why?
Quotes in CSV Files
Reduce bugs by: not using toString()
Send message with an “ordering key” to GCP Pub/Sub via “Spring Integration”
Spring PropertiesLoaderUtils.loadAllProperties overrides properties in wrong order
Task tracking numbers are not a substitute for documentation
The cycle of programming languages
Underscores in numbers
Unit testing code that needs data in a database
Use exceptions rather than return codes
What language should be taught as the first language on a university computer science degree course?
Which log levels to use when?
Why am I using Hibernate?
Why is my Java software only using one core, on my multi-core AWS ECS Docker instance?
Wrap IDs in objects
XML in the database

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